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[I]A health worker administers polio vaccine as part of a UNICEF-supported campaign in Damascus. Aid agencies sometimes have to negotiate with rebel groups and work in dangerous situations to immunize vulnerable children.[/I][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]In a refugee camp in eastern Lebanon, aid workers put sandbags around plastic tents to keep winter rains from flooding dirt floors. For weeks now, the threat for Syrian refugees was the coming cold. Now refugees have a bigger fear: polio.
A childhood disease that causes paralysis and sometimes death, polio can spread rapidly, especially with the huge movement of people fleeing the war.
Some 4,000 Syrians still cross into neighboring countries every day, at least half of them children.
Lebanon hasn't had a polio outbreak in 12 years. The announcement of 10 confirmed cases in eastern Syria is a wake-up call for the region, one that requires a regional response by health workers and aid agencies, says Dr. Foaud Foaud, professor of health services at Amerian University Beirut.
"I think it's not about just 'fast enough,' they should be 'wide enough,'" Foaud says as Syrian refugees stream into neighboring Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. "They have to reach now five countries ... It's not easy at all. it's very difficult, but it's a must, now."
In Lebanon, health officials are sending out 5,000 workers for door-to-door immunizations. This weekend, a center is opening at the airport and at the border to immunize young children as they arrive.
In Syria, the government launched an immunization campaign as soon as the first polio cases were reported.
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is a key agency supporting the immunization program. UNICEF organized a vaccine airlift that arrived in Beirut and will be trucked into Syria.
An immediate focus is the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, where the outbreak was first reported, says Juliette Touma, regional spokesperson for UNICEF.
"In the past few days we managed to reach, at UNICEF, with partners, more than 40,000 children in Deir Ezzor, where the polio cases were confirmed," Touma says. "This is only the beginning."
The goal is to reach 1.6 million children across Syria, an enormous challenge in wartime, she says. To reach the most vulnerable children, aid agencies have to negotiate not just with the government, but with rebel groups, to allow them to work in areas they hold or surround.
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Polio, you bastard, why won't you just let us eradicate you!
Smallpox and rinderpest are gone from this planet Earth, and it's generally agreed that polio and Guinea worm disease are 99% of the way there.
why can't they just become like the US and make a business out of war
wait wouldn't that be bad for us
[QUOTE=Whiterfire;42750846]why can't they just become like the US and make a business out of war
wait wouldn't that be bad for us[/QUOTE]
What?
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;42750776]Polio, you bastard, why won't you just let us eradicate you!
Smallpox and rinderpest are gone from this planet Earth, and it's generally agreed that polio and Guinea worm disease are 99% of the way there.[/QUOTE]
the number is tolling backwards as anti-americanism, a form of mckarthyism, and the taliban have all gotten togather in the middle east and convinced people that the polio vaccine is actually a covert CIA infiltration operation designed to sterilize their children so we can take all their oil
[editline]4th November 2013[/editline]
frankly the early 70s were a perfect storm for vaccinations, this wave of anti-americanism wasn't exactly there, the world for the most part was at peace and crucially the people in the regions that needed help the most were not lead by extremists who were convinced we're taking their precious bodily fluids also the anti-vaccer movement didn't exist because people saw that you don't have to die from these fucking horrible diseases by taking a little shot, something people today are too fucking stupid to realise
[QUOTE=Sableye;42750930]the number is tolling backwards as anti-americanism, a form of mckarthyism, and the taliban have all gotten togather in the middle east and convinced people that the polio vaccine is actually a covert CIA infiltration operation designed to sterilize their children so we can take all their oil
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frankly the early 70s were a perfect storm for vaccinations, this wave of anti-americanism wasn't exactly there, the world for the most part was at peace and crucially the people in the regions that needed help the most were not lead by extremists who were convinced we're taking their precious bodily fluids also the anti-vaccer movement didn't exist because people saw that you don't have to die from these fucking horrible diseases by taking a little shot, something people today are too fucking stupid to realise[/QUOTE]
A major problem though is that many vaccines that have been sent from Europe and America to developing nations were out of date or experimental, and did actually case serious health problems, usually in giving the disease they were intended to treat to those treated, or spreading secondary infections such as HIV from improper administration and safety standards. The paranoia towards vaccination is unfounded, but the concern that foreign produced and administered vaccines will be of inferior quality, either from sitting in warehouses due to corruption or being improperly administered aren't entirely unfounded.
This isn't a good reason not to take the vaccinations, they are still largely old myths and concerns manipulated by power-mongers and demagogues as a tool to rouse anti-foreign sympathies.
[QUOTE=Sableye;42750930]the number is tolling backwards as anti-americanism, a form of mckarthyism, and the taliban have all gotten together in the middle east and convinced people that the polio vaccine is actually a covert CIA infiltration operation designed to sterilize their children so we can take all their oil[/QUOTE]
This only really started since the civil war. Syria, because of its somewhat secular government did have immunization.
[QUOTE=DanRatherman;42750986]A major problem though is that many vaccines that have been sent from Europe and America to developing nations were out of date or experimental, and did actually case serious health problems, usually in giving the disease they were intended to treat to those treated, or spreading secondary infections such as HIV from improper administration and safety standards. The paranoia towards vaccination is unfounded, but the concern that foreign produced and administered vaccines will be of inferior quality, either from sitting in warehouses due to corruption or being improperly administered aren't entirely unfounded.
This isn't a good reason not to take the vaccinations, they are still largely old myths and concerns manipulated by power-mongers and demagogues as a tool to rouse anti-foreign sympathies.[/QUOTE]
Bu-bu-but... But autism!
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;42750776]Polio, you bastard, why won't you just let us eradicate you!
Smallpox and rinderpest are gone from this planet Earth, and it's generally agreed that polio and Guinea worm disease are 99% of the way there.[/QUOTE]
I don't know man. There's several people on my facebook that wholeheartedly believe things like the polio vaccine are not necessary and only designed to kill their children and they have not gotten their children vaccinated.
Just look at this yahoo answer.
[url]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070612083350AA40SHb[/url]
I think we may see a trend in polio coming back into the US if people are left this uninformed about vaccines.
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;42755601]I don't know man. There's several people on my facebook that wholeheartedly believe things like the polio vaccine are not necessary and only designed to kill their children and they have not gotten their children vaccinated.
Just look at this yahoo answer.
[url]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070612083350AA40SHb[/url]
I think we may see a trend in polio coming back into the US if people are left this uninformed about vaccines.[/QUOTE]
That "best" answer is depressing
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;42755601]I don't know man. There's several people on my facebook that wholeheartedly believe things like the polio vaccine are not necessary and only designed to kill their children and they have not gotten their children vaccinated.
Just look at this yahoo answer.
[url]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070612083350AA40SHb[/url]
I think we may see a trend in polio coming back into the US if people are left this uninformed about vaccines.[/QUOTE]I understand respecting everyone's religious and personal beliefs....but not getting the vaccinations hurts EVERYONE as a whole. Wouldn't it be better to simply get the vaccination and wipe the disease off the face of the Earth?
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;42750776]Polio, you bastard, why won't you just let us eradicate you!
Smallpox and rinderpest are gone from this planet Earth, and it's generally agreed that polio and Guinea worm disease are 99% of the way there.[/QUOTE]
We've done a pretty damn good job at it so far
[IMG]http://www.cdc.gov/polio/images/map_1988-2012.png[/IMG]
Oh well, let the stupid people get Polio*. Can't help someone who doesn't want help.
(*Referring to anti-vaccers)
Diseases feed off war, so unless we go into a period of relative peace we'll not be able to eradicate it.
well the only problem is we will have to continue quarenteening and containing any outbreaks instead of being able to completely eliminate it all for good. we probably will end up eliminating it by the end of this decade, but the war could drag on for years to come
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;42758773]We've done a pretty damn good job at it so far
[IMG]http://www.cdc.gov/polio/images/map_1988-2012.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Syira is in white...
[QUOTE=Elfy;42759008]Syira is in white...[/QUOTE]
In 2012
[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;42759067]In 2012[/QUOTE]
Oh shit yeah my bad
[QUOTE=Reshy;42758806]Oh well, let the stupid people get Polio*. Can't help someone who doesn't want help.
(*Referring to anti-vaccers)
Diseases feed off war, so unless we go into a period of relative peace we'll not be able to eradicate it.[/QUOTE]
Stupid adults not vaccinating is one thing (although bad for herd immunity), but it hurts the children that don't know better or get told not to get vaccinated
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